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Exelon Corp (EXC): Today's Featured Utilities Winner

Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.

Exelon (
EXC) pushed the Utilities sector higher today making it today's featured utilities winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Exelon rose 33 cents (1.1%) to $29.75 on light volume. Throughout the day, 5.8 million shares of Exelon exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $29.40-$29.78 after having opened the day at $29.43 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $29.42. Other companies within the Utilities sector that increased today were:
GreenHunter Energy (
GRH), up 4.1%,
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras (
EBR.B), up 3.3%,
American Midstream Partners (
AMID), up 2.9%, and
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras (
EBR), up 2.8%.

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Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, engages in the energy generation and distribution business in the United States. Exelon has a market cap of $25.02 billion and is part of the utilities industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.6, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 1.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Exelon a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Exelon as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, feeble growth in the company's earnings per share and deteriorating net income.